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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
relax, im back.
ok so the flood.
you asked if i believe it happened and when?
i think some form of it happened, no earlier than 4000 years ago, possibly further back depending on how years were counted.
it says in the bible there was a canopy over the earth(ie water/cloud) and waters came up from the deep. maybe it was a regional flood or it was a full flood of the earth. it is possible that the water flattened out the land (or it was flatter) thus allowing for it to be flooded. if the dinasours were around before the flood, they might have been saved but not able to survive due to the removal of the canopy over the earth. the flood could have moved fossils around. of course the problem is there is not a huge layer of all kinds of fossils (or we havent found it yet).
also as someone else mentioned, stories of things such as a big flood were found in other cultures/societies.
i don't understand the plagerizing thing, its not plagerizing if you are writing about the same event from your point of view. these stories got passed down for generations, so some exaggeration may have happened.
anyways, t@t i think it happened to some extent, and the bible would say about 4000 years ago, but there may be exaggerations or different methods of counting years used over time. its not important how it happened or when though. its that mankind got to a point so bad and evil that God had to wipe the evil out, then promised it would never again. (and im sure there are other things that are learned from it, but others can probably elaborate more if you'd like)
sorry for taking so long, i have been avoiding writing long posts since i injured myself, and the conversation had already shifted to something else by the time i sat down to write. but then you reminded me. so there you go
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That's quite the post
Since I now have a headache. I'm just ask you to use a search engine and look up the evidence of mass floods over the years.
Hint, major floods can be seen back at least three ice ages or about 40,000 years (none were absolute global) and the last one was long before man could even chisel the event into a wall of a cave let alone write about it in a book.